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Alan Ladd - what members say

Shane review by A customer from Suffolk

A great western 13 May 2004
...x film which brings together many classic themes in a surprisingly modern way. Alan Ladd excels as an enigmatic stranger who becomes the hero, a character copied by Cli...

The Proud Rebel review by mikemovieman from ROCHDALE

The proud rebel 6 December 2007
...e time as the wonderful Big Country. There are good performances by the leads Alan Ladd and Olivia de Havilland.I think this film deserves to be shown in a pristine p[...

The Glass Key review by A customer from Preston

An action-packed gathering of really good actors 5 December 2008
...An early scene featuring Alan Ladd in profile seemed to show him as really wooden. But he soon warmed up. Which is just as well, given the lively performances of Brian D...

Alan Ladd - filmography

The Carpetbaggers (1964)
Starring: George Peppard, Carroll Baker, Alan Ladd
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes.

Rate this: 51% from 12 members

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The Proud Rebel on DVD (1958)
Starring: Alan Ladd, Olivia De Havilland, Olivia de Havilland
Director: Michael Curtiz
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Ladd plays a Southerner who after the Civil War heads north to search for a doctor to cure his mute son (played by Ladd's real son David). He falls for farmer in the process.

Rate this: 59% from 48 members

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Shane on DVD (1953)
Starring: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin
Director: George Stevens
Certificate:
George Stevens' classic Western, adaptated from the Jack Schaefer novel, stars Alan Ladd in the title role. Riding the ranges of Wyoming's Grand Tetons, Shane stops at the farm of homesteader Joe Starrett (Van Heflin) just before Ryker (Emile Meyer), a powerful and predatory cattleman, arrives with ..read more »

Rate this: 72% from 2,349 members

My Favourite Brunette on DVD (1947)
Starring: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre
Director: Elliott Nugent
Certificate:
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MY FAVORITE BRUNETTE, a spoof of the hardboiled detective genre. Hope plays a baby photographer who gets mixed up with gangsters after he pretends to be a private detective. Dorothy Lamour costars as the mysterious femme fatale, and horror legends Peter Lorre and Lon Chaney turn in hilariously ..read more »

Rate this: 58% from 299 members

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The Blue Dahlia on DVD (1946)
Starring: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Veronica lake
Director: George Marshall
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When a former pilot discovers that his unfaithful wife has been murdered, he is pursued by the police. In addition, a mysterious blonde woman has taken an interest in him.

Rate this: 69% from 476 members

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The Glass Key on DVD (1942)
Starring: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Veronica lake
Director: Stuart Heisler
Certificate:
A classic murder mystery, based on the the Dashiell Hammet novel and said to be the inspiration for Kurosawa's Yojimbo. When a corrupt politician is accused of murder, his assistant hunts the real killer, avoiding amorous advances from his boss' fiancee and attacks from gangsters along the way.

Rate this: 66% from 258 members

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This Gun For Hire on DVD (1942)
Starring: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Veronica lake
Director: Frank Tuttle
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In this classic film noir, tough-guy thriller, Alan Ladd plays Philip Raven, a double-crossed gunman who is out for revenge, with Veronica Lake as Ellen Graham, his platinum blond bombshell companion. A hired gun, Raven is kind to everyone but his targets, and when he kills an extortionist and ..read more »

Rate this: 72% from 264 members

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Citizen Kane on DVD (1941)
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead
Director: Orson Welles
Certificate:
CITIZEN KANE is Orson Welles's greatest achievement--and a landmark of cinema history. The story charts the rise and fall of a newspaper publisher whose wealth and power ultimately isolates him in his castlelike refuge. The film's protagonist, Charles Foster Kane, was based on a composite of Howard ..read more »

Rate this: 70% from 22,208 members

Alan Ladd - watch online

My Favorite Brunette to Watch Now (1947)
Starring: Bob Hope, Peter Lorre, Dorothy Lamour
Director: Elliott Nugent
Certificate:
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Run time: 87 minutes
MY FAVORITE BRUNETTE, a spoof of the hardboiled detective genre. Hope plays a baby photographer who gets mixed up with gangsters after he pretends to be a private detective. Dorothy Lamour costars as the mysterious femme fatale, and horror legends Peter Lorre and Lon Chaney turn in hilariously ..read more »

Rate this: 75% from 8 members

Alan Ladd facts

5 most recent films

The Carpetbaggers - 2.5 stars
The Proud Rebel - 3.0 stars
Shane - 3.5 stars
My Favourite Brunette - 3.0 stars
The Blue Dahlia - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Shane - 3.5 stars
This Gun For Hire - 3.5 stars
Citizen Kane - 3.5 stars
The Blue Dahlia - 3.5 stars
The Glass Key - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Carpetbaggers - 2.5 stars
My Favourite Brunette - 3.0 stars
The Proud Rebel - 3.0 stars
The Glass Key - 3.5 stars
The Blue Dahlia - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Veronica Lake - 3 times - show films
Orson Welles - 3 times - show films
Fortunio Bonanova - 3 times - show films
Veronica lake - 3 times - show films
Agnes Moorehead - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Orson Welles - 3 times - show films
Elliott Nugent - 2 times - show films
Stuart Heisler - 1 times - show films
George Marshall - 1 times - show films
Michael Curtiz - 1 times - show films

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